If this poll had come out last week, I would have been able to say '1' since I was an independent consultant .. but last week I started a full-time job using RH Linux, Perl and Apache. Very cool stuff.

And it's very cool to be working in an office environment again instead of having just two cats (one geriatric) for company.

When putting a smiley right before a closing parenthesis, do you:

Use two parentheses: (Like this: :) )
Use one parenthesis: (Like this: :)
Reverse direction of the smiley: (Like this: (: )
Use angle/square brackets instead of parentheses
Use C-style commenting to set the smiley off from the closing parenthesis
Make the smiley a dunce: (:>
I disapprove of emoticons
Other